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President Trump orders the closure of government DEI offices, revoke security protection for former aides that Iran wants dead, and loses his first court ruling on birthright citizenship.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street

Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Bill McGern and Kim Strassel. It was a whirlwind

week in Washington, starting with Donald Trump's second inauguration, and then his signing of a pile

of executive orders, which we've been taking one bunch at a time here on Potomac Watch.

Let's start today with Trump's overturning of his predecessor's initiatives on DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion.

President Biden in 2021 signed an order saying that he would implement, quote, an ambitious whole-of-government

equity agenda, unquote. Now, Bill, the new administration has reversed that and a whole lot more.

So what are the details of what the Trump administration has done?

Well, this is one of the most far-reaching executive boards, I think. It affects a whole federal government, and they basically

targeted DEI, not only initiatives that call themselves DEI, but some trying to go through

the back door and get the DEI ideology in. In so doing, Donald Trump not only revoked the executive order by Biden

that you mentioned, he went back to the initial executive order by LBJ, which was signed in 65,

a year after the Civil Rights Act had passed, that began this effort to, it wasn't called

DEI then, but it began the effort that resulted in basically disguised racial preferences and so

forth. So it's going to be a huge fight, but I think people are encouraged. One thing I would

say that's interesting, though Donald Trump deserves great credit

for taking this up, in a way, he's not necessarily leaving the charge. Even before he got in,

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